REVOLVER (2011-2022)
16 mm Film transferred to Digital Video, Stereo Sound
17'27" Minutes
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
Artists Space (film installation), NY, NY 2023
Fenda Film Festival, Belo Horizonte, BR, 2023
Process Film Festival, Riga, Latvia, 2023
Berlinale Film Forum Expanded, International Premiere, Berlin, DE 2023
Silver Hugo Award for Documentary Short Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL 2022
San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA 2022
FLIGHT (2021)
16 mm Film transferred to Digital Video, Stereo Sound
23'54" Minutes
Commissioned by OK Contemporary
Flourishing Black townships of Oklahoma in the 1920’s––an archival record of communities in exile, awash in colors deemed “impossible."
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany 2023
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 2023
Centre Film Festival, State College, PA 2022
67th Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY 2022
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY, NY 2022
Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2021
ONEOK Field, Tulsa, OK 2021
Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK 2021
VIEWFINDER (2020)
Digital Video, Stereo Sound
18'26" Minutes
Director, Writer, Editor, Main Camera: Crystal Z Campbell
Performers: Yasmin Mohamed, Vadim Nunies, Darlene Wenda, Nelly Wenda
Filmed entirely in Swedish spa town, VIEWFINDER takes cues from political gestures, and decisive movements to explore belonging, allyship, and monuments.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
University of Utah, School of Dance, Salt Lake City, UT 2023
Reassemblage Collective, Toronto, Canada 2022
67th Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY 2022
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY, NY 2022
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2022
Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY 2022
Squeaky Wheel, Journey’s End, Buffalo, NY 2022
Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY 2021
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO 2021
Cine Migrante, Buenos Aires, AR 2021
DocLisboa (with UnionDocs), Lisbon, PT 2021
Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, KS 2019
Black Film Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2019
Skogen (Art Inside Out), Gothenberg, Sweden, 2019
CURRENCY (2019)
Digital Video, Stereo Sound
2'53" Minutes
Director: crystal z campbell
Performer: angela davis johnson
Videographer: david wayne reed
CURRENCY (2019) is a sound film of refusal––a woman wears bygone forms of currency on the tips of her hair while preserving the greatest currency for herself.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Maysles Documentary Center, NY, NY 2023
SBC galerie d'art contemporain, Montreal, CA, 2023
University of Utah, School of Dance, Salt Lake City, UT 2023
Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY 2022
Reassemblage Collective, Toronto, Canada 2022
Mary R. Koch Arts Center, Wichita, KS 2021
AHHA Gallery Tulsa, OK 2020
Drawing Center, NY, NY 2019
Admiral Drive-In Theater, Tulsa, OK 2019
Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, KS 2019
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 2019
Skogen (Art Inside Out), Gothenberg, Sweden 2019
Art Inside Out, Varberg, Sweden 2019
Go-Rilla Means War (2017)
35mm Film Transferred to 2K, Stereo Sound
19'03" Minutes
Director: Unknown
Editor, Sound Designer: Crystal Z Campbell
A filmic relic of gentrification. Featuring 35mm film salvaged from a now demolished black civil rights theater in Brooklyn, Go-Rilla Means War is a parable weaving intersections of development, cultural preservation, and erasure.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
UNDO Film Screening (UnionDocs), EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2022
Alternative Cinema, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 2022
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2022
Reassemblage Collective, Toronto, Canada 2022
67th Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY 2022
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY, NY 2022
Block Museum Cinema, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2022
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2022
DocLisboa (with UnionDocs), Lisbon, PT 2021
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA 2021
Film at REDCAT series, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA 2021
Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY 2021
Black Film Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2019
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2019
Skogen (Art Inside Out) 2019
Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK 2018
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, March 2018
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 2018
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 2018
Nashville Public Art Project, Nashville, TN 2018
BRIC Media Arts, Brooklyn, NY 2018
SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY 2017
Rumsey St. Project, Grand Rapids, MI 2017
Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY 2017
A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse (2017-2020)
Digital Video, Stereo Sound
8’12” Minutes
Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Camera: Crystal Z Campbell
Running like water, an eclipse streams glimpses of irreversible consequence.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC 2023
Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY 2022
Reassemblage Collective, Toronto, Canada 2022
67th Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY 2022
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY, NY 2022
Squeaky Wheel, Journey’s End, Buffalo, NY 2022
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2022
DocLisboa (with UnionDocs), Lisbon, PT 2021
Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY 2021
Third Space, Helsinki, FI 2017
Wave Hill, Bronx, NY 2017
Valsammo Cable Factory, Helsinki, FI 2017
Block Museum Cinema, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2022
On The Way To The Moon, We Discovered The Earth (2018)
HD Video, Stereo Sound
9'49” Minutes
Director, Editor, Crystal Z Campbell
On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth is a historical remix of the New York Times newspaper printed during the New York City Blackout in 1977. The 1977 Blackout is unofficially credited with the formal birth of hip-hop, a movement that was already well underway but advanced with equipment acquired during the riots.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY, NY 2022
Nest, Den Haag, Netherlands 2019
Light Work (Urban Video Project), Light Work, Syracuse, NY 2018
Beat, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY, 2017
Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY, 2013
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia, PA 2013
Futures for Failures (2011)
Digital Video, Stereo Sound
1’01” Minutes
An exhalation of social and architectural failures under the guise of possible futures.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
Counterpublic Triennial, St. Louis, MO 2023
Reassemblage Collective, Toronto, Canada 2022
Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY 2021
Cinema of Breath 2021
An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Galleri Studio 44, Stockholm, SE 2019
Light Work (Urban Video Project), Light Work, Syracuse, NY 2018
Skowhegan, Cabinet, NY, NY, 2013
1646 Gallery, Den Haag, NL, 2012
Studio Museum of Harlem, Harlem, NY 2012
WITNESS (2010)
5’10” Minutes
8mm film transferred to Digital Video, Stereo Sound
A sonic meditation on the camera as witness and the so-called ‘landscape of violence.’
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2022
Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY 2021
An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Galleri Studio 44, Stockholm, SE 2019
Biomythography, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA 2015
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY 2015
The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Biomythography, CGU Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA, 2014
Rutgers University, Mason Gross Gallery, NJ 2011
Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 2010
Respond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY 2015
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A DARK LOVE STORY FOR CLOWNS (2009)
5’11” Minutes
Digital Video, Stereo Sound
Director, Editor, Sound Designer: Crystal Z Campbell
Performers: Gregory Parks and Jessi Hoftschildt
A Dark Love Story For Clowns is a modern riff of a post-abolitionist short story by William Faulkner.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
Reassemblage Collective, Toronto, Canada 2022
67th Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY 2022
Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY 2021
Oceanside Film Festival, Oceanside, CA, 2010